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"Commander, the Viidaav won't be able to evacuate in time, either. They're killing themselves—and their own planet.""It's more likely their Separatist 'allies' triggered it. Probably using the colony's own mining charges, buried in the crust. Order the other units to cover us. I doubt the Viidaav even know the signal's been activated… and they aren't in the mood to listen to us anyway."

―A Republic clone trooper and clone commander, during the battle on Viidaav[src]

The Viidaav head was covered in thick, square-like projections. They had large, red eyes under an expressive brow, and white teeth behind thick, green lips. Their prominent cheekbones framed small, round ears on the sides of the head. Members of the species had no visible nose.[1]

During the Clone Wars, Viidaav soldiers wore uniforms that consisted of a brown baldric over the left shoulder, brown boots, a brown loincloth, and brown wraps around the forearms. Soldiers bore a colored stripe on the chin, and at least one commander wore white face paint around the eyes and the center of the forehead.[1] Meanwhile, Viidaav civilians wore clothing standard to other members of the galactic community.[3]

"Activate the detonation sequence. I expect the planet's surface to be an inferno before I leave the system.""And the Viidaav colonists?""We need them to keep the Republic troops pinned down—let them live on in history."

The Viidaavs evolved on the planet named for them,[6] which was located in the Bryx sector[8] of the Mid Rim.[6] They spread across their homeworld and founded at least one colony on the planet, which was used for mining. As part of mining operations, the Viidaav colonists set explosive charges into the planetary crust for help in the excavation of raw materials. The species also set up a shipbuilding industry on the world.[1]

"Has the Republic landed most of their troops?""Enough to set the trap.""And our Viidaav allies?""A few hundred thousand remain, but we do not have enough ships to take them with us.""Then they should have built us more in the time they were given."

After Republic scouts found the Separatist base on Viidaav in the year20 BBY,[4]clonetroopers attacked the world, and a battle began. The natives and their droid allies resisted, but the Republic landed most of its available forces and moved ever closer toward the Viidaav mining colony. There, Viidaav soldiers were reduced to a few hundred thousand troops concentrated around the defense of a small mining array in a bunker. With the Republic poised to take the array and the world, the Viidaavs prepared to evacuate the planet.[1]

Any retreat had to rely on spacecraft of Viidaav manufacture, but too few remained for a full evacuation. Meanwhile, the Confederate leader, CountDooku, was secretly plotting to take out large numbers of Republic clone troopers, but the plan relied on a sizable loss of Viidaav lives as well[1] and would leave the planet's surface uninhabitable:[4] Dooku ordered his battle droids to surreptitiously set the mining charges in the planet's crust to destruct, and he left the Viidaav forces to fight on to keep the Republic forces engaged until the explosives went off.[1]

The battle droids set the charges and initiated the bunker's defense systems to slow down attempts to disable it. The Viidaavs recognized that they had been tricked and sent a unit to diffuse the explosives. At the same time, a unit of clone troopers approached the bunker, and the two sides exchanged fire and suffered heavy casualties. Eventually, only a single member remained on both sides: the Viidaav commander and the clone commander. Both entered the mining array from different entrances. The enemies fought through the bunker's defenses, met in the computer room, and leveled their weapons at one another; the computer steadily counted down. With three seconds remaining, the Viidaav commander fired his weapon and was shot dead. Only then did the clone realize that the green-skinned warrior had only intended to shoot the computer. At any rate, the computer was destroyed, the explosives deactivated, and the battle finished.[1]

↑"Heroes on Both Sides" is ambiguous about whether the "Viidaav mining colony" is a planet colonized by the Viidaavs or an area of their homeworld colonized for mining. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, vol. III, p. 306, indicates that the colony existed on the Viidaav homeworld, Viidaav.